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Book Condition: Used Modern half brown polished calf by Atkinson, Salisbury, retaining bookplate of Captain Sir Elwyn Francis Stanhope, Bart., Royal
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About Item: London: sold by A. Manson, P. Denham, W. Robertson, and F. Nicholson, 1766. First edition. iv, [5]-93, [1, blank] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Modern half brown polished calf by Atkinson, Salisbury, retaining bookplate of Captain Sir Elwyn Francis Stanhope, Bart., Royal Navy. Owner signature of Nathaniel Cowrah his book, 1809. Very good copy, handsomely bound, in marbled slipcase. First edition. iv, [5]-93, [1, blank] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. This Journal of the circumnavigation of the Dolphin in 1764-6 starts out as a seafaring account of travel from Plymouth to Madeira to Brazil, and the claiming of the Falkland Islands for the British crown, but on page 21 when the Dolphin rounds Cape Virgin Mary on Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonians are sighted, the text becomes an imaginary utopian narrative. The Patagonians are described as ten feet tall, riding upon horses fifteen feet tall, and "their very old age is about two hundred and ten, when their strength fails". There is a description of the Patagonian metropolis,… Read More
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